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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-06
THE FISHING SNAKE.
A Pleasing Variety of Serpent With a
Remarkably Useful Tail.
Observation-Disclosures il, the Dakota Bel.

DOthHOOdSHtlJ'I VI Tue DdhOtU octt.
think the strangest snake have seen is
what call the fishing snake | saw one on a
log floating ina little arm of slack water run
ming in from the river 1t was long and slender,
and one or two coils were on the log and its
head raised about foot Suddenly saw il
make a quick movement and small fish
seemed 10 leap ont of the water. which the
snake caught in its mouth and proceeded to
swallow | could not imagine how the snake
got the fish, and went further, where | could
see il better. watched it eaten two more and
saw how X was done. II had its tail in the water
for the length of about three feet, and the fish
bit the end of it and was ierked out. | under
stood it still more thoroughly when the snake
left the log and swan to the shore, where
killed it. On the end of its tail there a sort
of bone fish hook. 1t was double and much the
shape of an anchor 1t was very sharp like the
teeth of some fish, and the snake had baited
with large graSShopper The whole length of
its body was seven feet. 1t was of a yellowisb
color, much the same as the water in which it
was fishing. think it must be confined and in
tended for the Missouri river which is always
of the same muddy, milky color
Since killing that one have seen n number of
others. One day last week | saw three on one
log and fishing very intantly. While | was
watching them one booked a larger fish than be
could land 1t was catfish which would weigh
as much as six pounds. The snake coed around
the log and hung on, but it could have never
drawn the fish out had not the others come to
its assistance, reached down their tails coiled
them around the fish and finally landed it. 1t
was too big for them to swallow, and after I'M
hooking it from the first ones tail they let it
Slide back
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-06
PERSONAL.


MAYOR HEWITT, of New York city, is confined
to his residence by illness.
ANNIE LOUISE CARY owns the collection Of
music formerly owned 10y the Poet Gray.
GEN. PAINE is cruising about the waters off
New London in his new yacht, the Volunteer.
GARRISON is the winning jockey of the season
up to date. He has ridden I0i races and won A.
GEES. ., b. .NETrt Eros, q millionaire of Mime
apolis, peddled Bibles in Phiadelphia before the
war.
SARAH BERNHARDr has been coming money in
London. Her receipts have averaged over
$1,000 FOR each performance
A CAT named Jim Fislce IS being sought for
far and wide by the disconsolate widow of the
late Marcus Cicero Stanley, of New York
Gov FORAKER over-eyerted himself at John
ShcrmanS Toledo convention, and he has been
quite i'll at his home in Columbus since his re-
turn.
SPEAKER JAMES w. Hustled, of the New York
Hous Of representatives, has been elected
President of the Hartford and Connecticut Rail
way Company.
PsINcE FERDINANp of SAKE Coburg is an en-
thusastic naturalist. lie possesses one of the
iinest pathological collections in the world and
notable cabinet Of precious stones.
yam PHoN LEE delivered lecture in Spring
field Mass, Monday night. He is a very fluent
speaker and has large number of stereopticon
views OF China and the Chinese His wife was
one of the audience and she seemed to appreci-
ate her husbands powers as speaker.
ACCORDING TO Cairo papers the Egyptian heir
prcSumptiyc, AbhaS Bey, and his younger
brother will not return to Geneva, where they
have until recently been studying. hut will finish
their studies at the Vienna ThcreSiauum, an in
sttution for the education Of young uoblcmeu.
IN which the late Alfonso XII of Span also
spent several year,.
THE Berlin Borscil- Courier learns that Prince
Bismarck will soon surrender the portfolio Of
the Ministry Of Commerce. which he has been
noninaliy holding Tor SO ne years and will APP
point new Minister for TINT departments.
Among the candidates mentioned, Herr MIGUEL,
the First hlrgomaStcr OF Frankfort ou-thc-
Main, IS considered to have the best chances.
NJ JULES CfARErIE. the Director OF the Come.
die Franchise, is said to show unusual severity
towaHls the writer Jules Caretie. A friend Of
hts having suggested To him the proprety Of
dramatzing one OF his novels for the Coincide
Francaise, Claretie replied II shall not accept
any one Of my plays; | shall mercilessly reject
II. shall not permit myself TO submit one Of
my plays 10 myself "
SUSANNA MADEIRA SALrER, Mayor Of Argonia,
Kan, is having y very successful admnStra-
ton. When she was elected 10 her present Office
her enemies predicted that she would make a
failure OF her effort to run the municipal affairs
OF ArgOnia. Up TO the present time she has
made no great blundefs She is however, tired
OF the burdens Of office and says that when her
present term expires she will retire TO private
fife and leave the government OF AROMA to the
Cate oi the stcrHcr sex.
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The New York Tribune has correspond
ent in Atlanta whose imagination is some
thing wonderful TO contemplate, Relative
to the Glenn bill against the co-eiucation of
the races in this State, he writes that APP
peals from prominent Democrats in all
parts of the country have been received by
members of the General Assembly urging
that the bill he killed. These appeals, says
the correspondent, declare that already the
discussion of the bill has aroused bad feel
ing in the North, and that if the bill be-
comes a law the Mugwumps will be driven
away from President Cleveland Tho COR
respondent expresses the belief that the bin
will be pigeon-holed in the Senate There is
little cause to doubt that all this is pure
romance, AS to pigoon-holing the bill, such
a thing is not probable. 1t passed the
House by almost unanimous vote, and it
will likely pass the Senate without serious
opposition.
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JOHN DEANS SUIT.
Tho Hero of the First Coachman Mar
riage Seeking Damages.

From the Troy Press.
John Dean, travelling salesman for New
York wool brokerage house, has instituted
through James Lansing, his attorney, IN action
for $4,000 damages against Peter Mccarthy, of
this city. Dean alleges as his cause of action
that Mr. McCarthN wrote u letter to the house
which employs Dean, stating that the latter had
prevaricatel in his method of business and that
he was not a fit character 10 travel for any re-
spectacle business house. This Is not denied by
Mr.. Mccarthy. John Dean, the plaintiff in the
action, has had quite romantic career About
the year 1860 Dean was employed as n coach
man by a New York manufacturer named
Boxer. Boxer had an only daughter, Julia Ann
Boxer. This daughter was about % years OF
age, handsome and well educated. Dean, who
was about 30 years of age at the time, was fire.
quently brought into contact with Julia Ann.
The close relationship caused feeling to spring
up between the couple which soon rlpened into
love. Then came the climax. They both well
knew that Papa Boxer would never give his con-
sent to their marriage. They eloped and were
married. For time all ran along smoothly.
many Meantime the news of the elopement
had been spread throughout the country, which
rcsounded with the popular applause of John
Dean and his bride. Songs were written, one
of which bore the appropriate title of John
Dean and his own Julia Ann and they were
the hero and heroine of the hour But
life, especially married life, is fraught
with vicissitudes Julia had been reared from
childhood in luxury. Her parents d!sowned
and dsinherited her. A longing for the JOYS
and comforts of the parental home returned to
her. She became displeased with her life with
John Dean. He was poor rand they were neces-
sary deprived of many of the luxuries of life.
The more she pondered on the subject the more
discontented with her lot it made her. At last
she returned TO the home of her parents who
willingly received her Dean wandered away
from the scene of his adventure, and the elope-
ment was forgotten Mrs. Dean shortly after
went to Paris, where she now resides. Dean
has since then risen to u higher position in the
world than he occupied as coachman. He held
various positions, and for the past several years
has Travelled as on agent for wool commission
houses in New York city He is widely known
throughout the country, and has the reputation
of being reliable cotton and wool expert
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Reformers and Spoilsmen.

The President appears to be able to satisfy
the masses of the people, but not the spolls-
men aud those who pose as civil service re
formers. Ever since his Inauguration he
has been a target for the attacks of the
spoilsmen. They do not approve Of his
civil service reform policy, and have never
ceased trying to bring him into disrepute
with the Democratic party because he has
refused to violate his pledges and make a
clean sweep of all the Republicans in office.
IIo has courageousIy resisted the pressure
which they have brought to bear upon him,
however, and has continued to administer
the civil service reform law faithfully.
But it seems that he has failed to satisfy
Mr.. George William Curtis, the dis
tinguShed Mugwump civil service reformer.
Mr.. Curtis made a speech at the annual
meeting of the National Civil Service Re
form League, the other day, in which he
declared that he was not satisfied with the
Presidents Civil Service Reform record.
He thought that altogether too
many tried and trained men
had been removed from the public service
and their places filed with new men be-
longing to the Democratic party. He said
that he had been disappointed in the Presi-
dent, but had not wholly ceased to trust
him. He thought that the President would
he reelected, and hoped that civil service
reform would find in him much stauncher
friend in the future than it had in the past
One Of the things on which Mr.. Curtis
dwelt with especial emphasis was that
several Federal officials, whose homes are in
Baltimore, had taken a leading part in the
Democratic primaries III that city recently
and that they had not been either dismissed
from office or rebuked for doing so. He
said chat the Presidents letter prohibiting
Federal officials from taking an active par
tisan part in political affairs might as well
be considered as withdrawn.
Mr.. Curtis pretends to be a very Just man
as well as a reforrner, and yet he made this
grave charge against the President at u
public meeting without having any other
foundation for it than the statements of
partisan papers. Surely Mr. Curtis is not
the sort of a reformer the country is likely
TO follow, or to regard with great deal of
respect. If he is ready to accept the state
ments hostile to the President, which
are found in opposition journals, and, with
out investigation, to use them TO bring BIN
into disrepute with the people he stands
upon no higher moral plane than the spoils-
men. Like the spoilslnen. also, he shows
himself willing to attack the President be
cause the President declines to follow closely
the course he marks out for him.
The President is not in need of the good
will of either the civil service reformers Of
Mr. Curtis kind or of the spoilsmen. The
people believe that he is keeping his pledges
to them, and the evidence that he has their
confidence and good will is accommodating.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-06
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

SPECIAL NoTIcEs-M Metropolitan Savings and
Loan Co.; Dividend Notice Metropolitan Saw
ings and Loan Co; Notice TO Water Takers
Notice Geo. w Mattair,
STEAMSHIP ScHEDULE-Ocean Steamship Co
YACHT RAcE-At Montgomery To-day.
AUCTION SALE-General Auction Sale, D. K
Kennedy
CHEAP COLUMN ADvERTIsEMENTs-Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; Personal;
Reward; Miscellaneous.
For SALE-A. II. Champion.
EDUCATIONAL Institute, Warren
renton, Va.
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The Prohibition Defeat in Texas.

Tho defeat which the Prohibitionists in
Texas have suffered will hardly stop the
prohibition agitation in that State. 1t is
pretty certain, however, that they will not
invite another contest of the same kind
very soon. They would have been wiser if
they had adopted the Georgia plan in tine
first instance With local option law they
could have captured one county after an
other until they had possession Of the greater
part, if not all, of the State The local OPP
ton method insures a strong public senti-
ment il favor of prohibition in each locality
which adopts it, and a sentiment of that
sort is necessary for the enforcement of the
law
If the prohibition amendment had been
carried in Texas some counties would doubt
less have given majority against it, and
while it might have cen an easy matter 10
have enforced the law in the counties which
gave it maiorities, it would have been diff
cult, if not impossible, to have satisfactorily
enforced it in counties in which the MAORI
ties were against it.
The Prohibitonsts of Texas comprise
perhaps three-fourths of the best element Of
the population, and they will not accept
their defeat as conclusive. They will pre-
sent the prohibition issue in a new shape,
and keep on agitating it until they have
secured a remedy for many of the evils Of
the liquor traffic. High license is within
their grasp. They have only to ac-
cept it to insure the passage of
a very stringent high license law
The anti-Prohibitionists have already
announced their willingness to favor high
license and it may be that that will be the
outcome of the exciting contest that has
just closed. BUTT would not be surprising
if an effort should be made to secure a local
option law The Prohibitionists have shown
such strength that the Legislature would be
willing to pass almost any law, except a
prohibitory one restraining the liquor
traffic.
No doubt the Prohibitionists will claim
that their defeat was partly due to the
strong letter against prohibition which Hon.
Jefferson Davis wrote to an Ex-Governor of
Texas few days before the election. The
letter undoubtedly helped the anti-Prohibi-
tionists. They gave it very wide circula-
ton and commented on it in a way to aid
their cause. Senator Reagan replied to it,
but in his reply he admitted that it would
probably defeat the prohibition amendment
1t is safe to say, however, that although the
letter influenced a great many votes
against prohibition, the amendment
would have been defeated by a large ma
jority if it had not been written.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-06

The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald gives an account of what
is probably the last Revolutionary war
pension claim that will ever be filed at the
Pension Office The claimant is Mrs Mary
Casey, of Washington, Fayette county,
Ohio. Her husband John Casey, served
during the Revolution in the Virginia line.
He died in 1915, at the age of IS years A
few years prior he was married to Mary
Cox, then a girl of IT, Ten years ago Mrs.
Casey filed her application for a pension,
but it was pgeon-holed on some slight
technicality, aud there it lay until few
weeks ago, when it was brought to Gen
Blacks attention. 1t was found that no
valid reason existed for delay, and by Gen.
Blacks orders the claim was allowed as
soon as the necessary papers could be filled
up and signed.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-06
Latent.

Without the garden wall it grows,
A fowerlsSs tree
Wrung by the restless hast that blows
Across the sea;
Forgotten Of the tickle spring, A
The scanty leaves droop, whitening; V
Scarce would it seem-poor sapless thing. =
A rose to be,
Yet must the frail and faded spray
A rose remain.
Though bitter blowing Winds to-day
Its growth restrain.
Somewhere, however these deny,
The color and the fragrance lie;
Somewhere the perfect flower its DIE
Dull stalks contain.
If in a kindler soil perchance
The root should grow
Where dews would fail, aud sunbeams glance
And soft airs How,
Fair as the flower the garden shows
The leaf might spring the bud uncloSe-
From out the calyX of a rose
a rose will blow!
KATE PUTNAM OsGooD
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A Novel Entertainments.
From q n-ashinaton .SpcctaI.

A number of WashinEtonianS are spending
the summer at Berkeley springs where q
charmin2ly novel entertainment was given
them last week by Mrs Crchton. For this pur.
gagged Tor two hours and appropriately dacorat.
ed with ferns and flowers. The bathroom for
each of the young Indies invited was desig
by ribbon on one end Of which was printed
the name: This was fastened 20 the door. The
artistic effect Of the scene was GREATLY height
ened by the costumes worn. many OF which
were very unique After stay of twenty min.
utes IN the water the ladies left the pool and
were az once handed coffee, served IN delicate
Sevres cups When they again emerged from
the dresoing,rooms they were given q delightful
collation. OF ices, cakes and champagne punch.
A prize Tor the best swimmer handsome
basket Of iowers-aud glass slipper filled with
bonbons for the Gccond best swimmer were
awarded to Misses Sue and Mama IInlfar
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The Democratic Majority in Kentuck,

The Democratic Majority in kentucky.
The majority for the Democratic ticket
in Kentucky is considerably smaller this
year than it was at the last gubernatorial
election, or at the last Presidential cleo
ton. Some of the protection journals
claim that this reduced Democratic ma
jority is due to the free trade teachings of
Mr.. Carlisle and Henry Watterson. Other
jour. which are disposed TO be unfair in
order 70 make point against the admins
tration insist that the falling Off in the
Democratic vote is wholly owing to the
Presidents Civil Service policy.
The truth, doubtless, is that the Demo
Gratis were so certain of a victory that thou
sands of them did not take the trouble TO GO
to the polls. There are just as many Demo
Gratis in Kentucky as there ever were, and
they are as thoroughly convinced now as at
any previous time that the tariff
ought to be reduced, but they must
be satisfied that their votes are
needed before they will astonish their
political opponents with one of their big
majorities. At the last Congressional cleo.
tion in this State comparatively few Demo
cratic votes were polled. The reason was
not scarcity of Democratic voters, but a
belief that the Democratic candidates
would be elected. Doubtless the same belief
caused small Democratic vote in Ken.
lucky.
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A BABE IN A SKIFF.
Singular Episode on the River Near
Lawrenceburg,

b2Wrof1CeDufG-
From the Cincinnati Enquirer
An exciting incident took place last evening
on the river, near LawTcnCeburg. Ex-Marshal
HUH is the owner of a handsome skiff. and very
proud of his abilities as q sailor. Taking his
wife and 3-year-old boy in the skiff he rode
them out to the bar last evening, and the father
and mother alighted from the boat, leaving the
child quietly sleeping in the stern of the craft.
While the parents were busy amusing them
selves fishing a passing steamer caused repeat
ing circles of waves ~ rock the boat until
it became loosened from the shore, and,
floating out in the stream. began trip south
ward with its solitary and helpless passenger.
Having caught string of fish. the thoughtless
parents returned to where they had but a few
moments before noticed their vessel with its
sleeping cargo, and with horror heheld il several
hundred yards away. rocking upon the agtated
waters, while upright in its unsteady centre
stood the impe-iled child. Unconscious Of dan
ger, it clapped its hands joyously, and called
for its mamma TO ride with it. With no means
of reaching the boat, the parents looked on,
momentary expecting to see the little innocent
tumble into the water, as it tottered from side
to side of the uncontrolled slziff.
A passing skiff, attracted by the cries of the
mother, appeared The cause of her grief was
quickly known. The father leaped into the
boat and then began race for the fugitive
sliff. After a chase of nearly two miles the
runaway boat was overtaken, and the little babe
nestled safely in the arms of its parents.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-06

Justice is justice in New York. Not only
are men and women who commit breaches
of the peace hauled up before the courts,
but animals of a much lower order are SINH
larly treated. A few days ago in the Essex
Market Police Court monkey sat on a
bench and grinned in the Justices face.
Assault was the charge against the animal.
Frederick Smith, a boy - years old, was
the complainant. He had an ugly cash
near the corner Of his right eye that had
been inflicted by the monkeys claw The
boy said that the owner had thrown the
monkey on him. II was proved, however,
that the boy had tormentod the animal, and
SO the Justice dismissed the complaint The
monkey testified its joy by turning a somer-
sault over the bench.
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Cured by Applejac8.
Et.O,1i The pbiIgglaInLi., prose

Although for many years an ardent prohibi
ZIONIST, Michael B. Bowker, a resident of South
ampton, Burlington county found IL absolutely
necessary for him yesterday to abandoG
his vows in regard to total abstinence Earh
in the morning Mr. Bowker left his home, neal
Tabernacle, for tho purpose OF ga' icring buck
lcberries on the edge Of the pine forests When
he had wandered long distance he came upon
a spot where the fruit burg in great clusters
and so intent was he in gathering them, that he
did not notice an immense rattlesnaGe coiled d
rectly in front OF him As he reached forward
to pull the bush toward him the snake fastened
itself on Mr.. Bowkers hand In moment he
had shaken Il or and started off on run. suck
ing the blood from the wound as he ran
He kept on for over a mile. when he found Dr.
Reeves OF Nlrdtord, who cut the flesh about the
wound on Mr.. Bowkcr's hand, and then started
with him for Mcdford On reaching that place
he drank 4 quart Of real old appleiack This
had the desired effect and completely counter
acted the effect Of the poison
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-06

The question Of an extra session of Con.
settled. Congressman Payson, of Illinois,
is quoted as saying: II was at the White
House the day the Kansas City delegation
arrived to invite the President 10 visit their
city. President Cleveland told them he
should accept the invitation, and that he
expected 10 spend tho greater part of Octo-
Der travelling in the West and South. ]
said 10 him: In that event, Mr.. President,
suppose we may as well abandon all
thought Of an extra session of Congressf
He replied by Struggling his shoulders indif-
ferently, and guess we won't have an ex-
IRA session this year,